Police and missing people charities launched a global search for his identity. The story was picked up around the world and international television crews arrived on a bemused Isle of Sheppey to retrace the man’s soggy footsteps.
Photograph: Mike GunnillĪccording to some reports of the time he played so beautifully staff believed he must have been a professional musician, performing sections from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and what appeared to be his own compositions. The man was taken to a piano in the hospital chapel, and sat down and played.Ī sketch by the piano man. There he was given a piece of paper and pencil and sketched a grand piano. He was unable or unwilling to speak and ended up in hospital. The man appeared on a coastal road on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent in May 2005, smartly dressed but soaking. Finding out who we are is so difficult in these times.” He said: “For me the story is a lot about the loneliness we all experience in the modern world and our struggle for identity.
The director and cast have spoken to psychologists, mental health nurses and police to try to find out more what the man may have gone through but have decided not to try to track down the piano man himself.ĭaniel Hallissey has the tricky job of playing the elusive character, and has learned to play the piano from scratch for the role. I’ve always wanted to know what happened next.” It was such a magical story, one of those that you can’t get out your mind. Director Sam Carrack said the story had lived with him since he read about it in the Guardian and Times back in his student days.
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